# Deaths in November 1995
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1995.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## November 1995
### 1

* Richard Ashcraft, 57, American political theorist.
* Helen Bullock, 89-90, American historian.
* Rocco Canale, 78, American football player in the NFL.
* James Ralph Darling, 96, English-Australian chairman of ABC.
* Lex Hixon, 53, American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher, cancer.
* Bill Hudson, 85, British Special Operations Executive officer.
* Vasil Iljoski, 92, Macedonian writer and dramatist.
* George McCowan, 68, Canadian film and television director, pulmonary emphysema.
* Erika Morini, 91, Austrian violinist.
* Alun Pask, 58, Welsh rugby player.
* W. E. D. Ross, 82, Canadian writer.
* Desmond Shawe-Taylor, 88, English music critic.
* Brian Lenihan Snr, 64, Irish politician and minister.
* Tom Spencer, 81, English cricket player and umpire.
* Bradbury Thompson, 84, American graphic designer and art director.

### 2

* Bill Blair, 84, American auto racer.
* June Brewster, 82, American actress.
* Florence Greenberg, 82, record company founder.
* Luo Guibo, 88, Chinese diplomat and politician.
* Ollie Harrington, 83, American cartoonist.
* Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, 76, Columbian politician, homicide.
* Gil Lamb, 91, American actor.
* Gabriel Urgebadze, 66, Georgian Orthodox monk.

### 3

* R. Tucker Abbott, 76, American conchologist and malacologist.
* Bojan Adamič, 83, Slovenian composer.
* Arthur Bottomley, 88, British Labour politician and minister.
* Mario Revollo Bravo, 76, Colombian Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop.
* Jerome Caja, 37, American mixed-media painter, drag queen, and performance artist, AIDS.
* Wallas Eaton, 78, English film, radio, television and theatre actor.
* Gordon S. Fahrni, 108, Canadian physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association.
* John Orchard, 66, British actor (M*A*S*H).
* Edward Pola, 88, American radio and TV producer, and lyricist.
* William M. Rountree, 78, American diplomat, cancer.
* Cordelia Urueta, 87, Mexican artist.
* Isang Yun, 78, Korean-German composer.
* Gojko Zec, 60, Serbian football manager, homicide.

### 4

* John Cahill, 65, British businessman, and the chief executive of British Aerospace.
* Marti Caine, 50, British comedienne, singer and television host, lymphatic cancer.
* Revels Cayton, 87–88, American civil rights leader.
* Gilles Deleuze, 70, French philosopher, suicide.
* Paul Eddington, 68, English actor, lymphoma.
* Eddie Egan, 65, American actor, cancer.
* Essex Hemphill, 38, American poet and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
* Yizhak Rabin, 73, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated.
* Morrie Schwartz, 78, American professor of sociology and author, ALS.
* Prawitz Öberg, 64, Swedish football player, bone cancer.

### 5

* Walter Dobler, 75, Canadian gridiron football player.
* Gene Englund, 78, American basketball player.
* Ernest Gellner, 69, British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.
* Gordon Walters, 76, New Zealand artist and graphic designer.

### 6

* Larry Cannon, 58, American racecar driver, embolism.
* Bill Cheesbourg, 68, American racecar driver, cancer.
* Aneta Corsaut, 62, American actress (The Blob, The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), cancer.
* Chiaki Matsuda, 99, Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

### 7

* Andrea Adams, 49, British broadcaster and journalist for the BBC, ovarian cancer.
* Emery Bonett, 88, English author and playwright.
* Dimitri Dimakopoulos, 66, Greek-Canadian architect.
* Lars Dresler, 27, Danish figure skater and Olympian, undisclosed disease.
* Ann Dunham, 52, American anthropologist, cancer.
* John Patrick, 90, American screenwriter and playwright and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, suicide.
* Slappy White, 74, American comedian and actor, heart attack.

### 8

* Fernando Bello, 71, Portuguese sailor and Olympic medalist.
* Neil Blaney, 73, Irish politician.
* Suzanne Borel, 91, French diplomat.
* Francis Cleveland, 92, American stage actor, director, producer, and son of president Grover Cleveland.
* Oleh Makarov, 66, Soviet/Ukrainian football player, coach, and sports writer.
* Gertrude Messinger, 84, American film actress, pneumonia.
* Country Dick Montana, 40, American singer, aneurysm.
* Veselin Petrović, 66, Serbian cyclist.

### 9

* Morley Baer, 79, American photographer and teacher.
* Alessandro Cicognini, 89, Italian composer prolific in film music.
* Robert O. Cook, 92, American sound engineer.
* F. G. Emmison, 88, British archivist and historian.
* Geraldine Katt, 75, Austrian actress.

### 10

* Ria De Simone, 48, Italian actress and singer, brain cancer.
* Clairmonte Depeiaza, 67, West Indian cricketer.
* Jean Maurice Fiey, 81, French Dominican Father, Church historian and Syriacist.
* Curly Fox, 85, American fiddler.
* Ken Saro-Wiwa, 54, Nigerian writer and environmentalist, execution by hanging.
* Franco Silva, 75, Italian actor.
* René Wellek, 92, Czech-American writer.

### 11

* Corneliu Coposu, 81, Romanian politician, lung cancer.
* Jean-Louis Curtis, 78, French novelist.
* Kenneth S. Goldstein, 68, American folklorist and enthomusicologist.
* Koloman Gögh, 47, Czechoslovak football player, traffic collision.
* Charles Scribner IV, 74, American publisher.

### 12

* Richard L. Coe, 81, longtime theater and cinema critic for The Washington Post.
* Roland Dobrushin, 66, Russian mathematician.
* Emmett Matthew Hall, 97, Canadian jurist, judge, and civil liberties advocate.
* Sir Robert Stephens, 64, English actor (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Cleopatra, Empire of the Sun), complications following surgery.
* Willie Telfer, 70, Scottish football player and manager.

### 13

* Hanafy Bastan, 73, Egyptian footballer and Olympian.
* Ralph Blane, 81, American songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, and singer.
* Mary Elizabeth Counselman, 83, American writer of short stories and poetry.
* Erdoğan Partener, 66, Turkish basketball player and Olympian.
* Adriana Serra, 71, Italian film actress.
* Orlando Sirola, 67, Italian tennis player.
* Arthur Dale Trendall, 86, New Zealand-Australian art historian and classical archaeologist.
* John Van Eyssen, 73, South African actor.

### 14

* Jack Finney, 84, American author (The Body Snatchers), emphysema and pneumonia.
* Jack Holt, 83, British sailboat designer.
* Les Horvath, 74, American football quarterback and halfback.
* John Lee-Barber, 90, British Royal Navy officer.
* Jacob Rader Marcus, 99, American scholar and Reform rabbi.
* János Tamás, 59, Hungarian-Swiss composer, conductor and music educator.

### 15

* Karen Berg, 89, Danish actress.
* Joe F. Blair, 72, American sports publicist for the University of Maryland and the Washington Redskins.
* Billy Hughes, 81, British educationist and Labour Party politician.
* Sol Liptzin, 94, American-Israeli scholar, author, and professor of literature.
* J. Clyde Mitchell, 77, British sociologist and anthropologist.
* John W. Mitchell, 80, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.

### 16

* Robert H. Adleman, 76, American novelist and historian.
* D. Woodrow Bird, 83, American politician.
* Charles Gordone, 70, American playwright, actor, and director, liver cancer.
* Ralph Kronig, 91, German physicist.
* Conrad Lynn, 87, American civil rights lawyer and activist.
* Petre Prličko, 88, Macedonian actor.
* Gwyn A. Williams, 70, Welsh historian.

### 17

* Agasi Babayan, 73, Armenian director, screenwriter, and actor.
* Yevhen Bulanchyk, 73, Ukrainian hurdler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
* Alan Hull, 50, English singer-songwriter (Lindisfarne), thrombosis.
* Mohammad Said Keruak, 69, Malaysian politician.
* Norman Kirkman, 75, English football player and manager.
* Salvatore Martirano, 68, American composer.
* Pete Welding, 60, American historian, archivist, and record producer, heart attack.
* Marguerite Young, 87, American writer.

### 18

* Francisco de Borbón y Borbón, 83, Spanish aristocrat and military officer.
* John G. Collier, 60, British chemical engineer.
* Jacques Ertaud, 71, French film director and screenwriter.
* Miron Grindea, 86, Romanian-British literary journalist.
* Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, 54, Moroccan poet and writer.
* Reinhard Kolldehoff, 81, German film actor.

### 19

* Don Anielak, 65, American basketball player.
* Charles Doe, 97, American rugby player.
* Don Goldie, 65, American jazz trumpeter.
* Wan Guchan, 95, Chinese filmmaker.
* Martha Hill, 94, American modern dancer.
* Ed Wright, 76, American baseball player, cancer.

### 20

* George Burns, 76, New Zealand coxswain.
* Lester Finch, 86, English football player and manager.
* Robin Gandy, 76, British mathematician and logician.
* Sergei Grinkov, 28, Russian figure skater and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.
* Robie Macauley, 76, American editor, novelist and critic.
* Leotis Martin, 56, American boxer.
* Martand Singh, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist and politician.
* Kim Sung-jae, 23, South Korean singer, rapper, dancer, and model, murdered.

### 21

* Matthew Ashman, 35, English guitarist, complications from diabetes.
* Primrose Bordier, 66, French designer.
* Bruno Gerussi, 67, Canadian actor (The Beachcombers), heart attack.
* Peter Grant, 60, English rock band manager for The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, heart failure.
* Dorothy Jeakins, 81, American costume designer (The Ten Commandments, The Sound of Music, Samson and Delilah), Oscar winner (1949, 1951, 1965).
* Noel Jones, 54, British diplomat.
* Leon Lishner, 82, American operatic bass baritone.
* Leila Mourad, 77, Egyptian singer and actress.
* George Ivan Smith, 80, Australian diplomat.
* Wilfred White, 91, English equestrian and Olympic champion.

### 22

* Leonardo Bercovici, 87, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
* Margaret St. Clair, 84, American fantasy and science fiction writer.
* Tom Clay, 66, American radio personality and disc jockey, lung cancer.
* Edna Deane, 90, English ballroom dancer, choreographer and drama teacher.
* Elinborg Lützen, 76, Danish graphic designer.
* Norman Potter, 72, English cabinetmaker, designer and writer.
* Maria Cumani Quasimodo, 87, Italian actress and dancer.
* Sergey Stechkin, 75, Soviet/Russian mathematician.
* Johnnie Tillmon, 69, American welfare rights activist.

### 23

* John Frederick Collins, 76, American politician and Mayor of Boston, pneumonia.
* Louis Malle, 63, French film director (Atlantic City, Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre), lymphoma.
* Bernard M. Oliver, 79, American scientist.
* Dan Page, 65, American gridiron football player.
* Einari Teräsvirta, 80, Finnish gymnast and Olympic Champion
* Junior Walker, 64, American musician and recording artist, cancer.
* Steven Wood, 34, Australian sprint and marathon canoeist, suicide.

### 24

* Ivar Bjare, 52, Swedish luger who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics.
* John Craven, 79, American actor.
* Dominic Ekandem, 78, Nigerian Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Stuart Henry, 53, Scottish disc jockey, multiple sclerosis.
* Leslie O'Brien, Baron O'Brien of Lothbury, 87, English peer and Governor of the Bank of England.
* Jeffrey Lynn, 89, American actor (Four Daughters, A Letter to Three Wives, BUtterfield 8).
* Malcolm Munthe, 85, British soldier, writer, and curator.
* Eduard Ole, 97, Estonian painter.
* Paul van de Rovaart, 91, Dutch field hockey player and Olympian.

### 25

* Ángel Cappelletti, 67-68, Argentine philosopher and university professor.
* Édouard Chabert, 92, French sailor who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
* Nikolai Drozdetsky, 38, Russian ice hockey player, diabetes.
* Helge Hagerman, 85, Swedish actor and film producer.
* Leif Juster, 85, Norwegian comedian, singer and actor.
* Roger McKenzie, 24, English musician and DJ, heart problems.
* Boris Rytsarev, 65, Soviet/Russian film director.
* Erich Schellow, 80, German actor.
* Richard G. Shoup, 71, American politician.
* Léon Zitrone, 81, Russian-French journalist and television presenter, stroke.

### 26

* Roberto Bachi, 86, Italian-Israeli statistician and demographer.
* Sydney Dawson Bailey, 79, English author, pacifist, and expert on international affairs.
* David Briggs, 51, American record producer, lung cancer.
* Maurice Britt, 76, American football player, Medal of Honor recipient, and businessman.
* Terri L. Jewell, 41, American author, poet and Black lesbian activist.
* Toshia Mori, 83, Japanese actress, traffic collision.
* Bengt Palmquist, 72, Swedish sailor and Olympian.
* Shankar Dayal Singh, 57, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
* Sanae Takasugi, 77, Japanese actress.
* Wim Thoelke, 68, German TV entertainer.
* Charles Warrell, 106, English schoolteacher and creator of the I-Spy book series.

### 27

* Giancarlo Baghetti, 60, Italian Formula One driver, cancer.
* Simon Bailey, 40, British Anglican priest and writer, AIDS-related complications.
* Martín Colmenarejo, 59, Spanish racing cyclist.
* Albert Ouzoulias, 80, French communist leader of the French Resistance during World War II
* Harry Taylor, 71, British alpine skier.
* Jürgen Wattenberg, 94, German U-boat commander and POW escapee during World War II.

### 28

* Sukhan Babayev, 85, Soviet-Turkmenistan politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan.
* Richard C. Halverson, 79, American Presbyterian minister and author.
* Brunhilde Hendrix, 57, German relay runner and Olympic silver medalist.
* Slobodan Ivković, 58, Serbian basketball player and coach.
* Roy A. Taylor, 85, American politician.
* David James Walker, 90, Canadian politician.

### 29

* Tanaka Chikao, 90, Japanese playwright and dramatist.
* Wu De, 82, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
* Irene Ighodaro, 79, Sierra Leonean doctor and social reformer.
* Anthony LaRette, 44, American rapist and serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Leon McQuay, 45, American gridiron football player.
* Roger Norman, 67, Swedish triple jumper.
* Augusto H. Álvarez, 80, Mexican architect.

### 30

* Niklaus Aeschbacher, 78, Swiss composer and conductor.
* Jim Davis, 71, American baseball player.
* June Fisher, 66, British teacher and trade unionist.
* Philip Givens, 73, Canadian politician and judge.
* Til Kiwe, 85, German actor and screenwriter.
* Hopper Levett, 87, British cricket player.
* Rafael Portillo, 79, Mexican film director, screenwriter and film editor.
* William Roerick, 82, American actor, traffic collision.
* Stretch, 27, American rapper, drive-by shooting, homicide.